It’s probably just the human brain’s ability to connect dots & find patterns, but it can be interesting how many “unrelated” events and information bits accumulate in my head & eventually get mulled into an idea or theory. Take, for example, a recent biotech mixer, bits from an education leadership series & a past Nature [...]
Integrating large data sets for queries within–and across–various collections is one of the arenas that has lately been pretty active in bioinformatics. As more and more “big data” projects yield huge numbers of data points and data types, this is only becoming more necessary. I love to browse data, but there are times when a [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Cool art review in Nature of art by sculptor Conrad Shawcross who “is becoming famed for [...]
Ratmine is a ‘data warehouse’ that allows the user to construct queries across different areas of biological knowledge from SNPs to Pathways. It’s developed by the people at RGD and uses Intermine a project developed for Flymine and as part of a project between RGD, SGD and ZFIN to implement Intermine for these databases and [...]
For another project I’m on, I had to research some of the sources of information around phenotyping experimental animal models. And just as I needed it, the RGD team produced a very nice screencast of access to the phenotyping data and resources that they offer about rat phenotyping. If you are interested in that type [...]
NHGRI recently pointed out our new set of tutorials on model organism databases (funded mainly by NHGRI on their home page, genome.gov. Always nice to be recognized . And it gives me the opportunity to again point out that we do indeed have seven publicly available tutorials and training materials (slides, exercises, etc) on model [...]
For the tip of the week today, we’d like to point out a number of new (free to you) tutorials on model organism database resources. These seven tutorials (include flash movie tutorial, slides for downloading, exercises and handouts) were partly funded by a NHGRI grant. We just put out a press release on this, but [...]
OpenHelix today announced the free availability of tutorial suites on model organism databases and resources used extensively in research. The first tutorial suites available are GBrowse, Rat Genome Database (RGD), Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI), and WormBase. To be added in the coming weeks are Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), FlyBase and Saccharomyces (Yeast) Genome Database (SGD). [...]
This week has been quite busy here at OpenHelix and the U.S. For the tip of this week, as we do occasionally, I’m going to highlight a short tutorial tip done by someone else. This week’s is one done by the developers of RGD and showing the uses of the GViewer. This tutorial is at [...]
The field that comprises “bioinformatics” is really huge. Some people think it is mostly about sequence analysis. But I have been charged with everything from image analysis (for microscopy) to animal colony management software (for mouse breeding) in my career–and everything in between. Today I wanted to mention that the search for colony management software [...]
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